That's not to say that the publisher is without exclusive titles, with the likes of Crackdown 3 and State of Decay 2 being the two known exclusives arriving in 2018, but when stacked up against Sony's God of War and Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. the choice of which console to purchase likely won't lean in the Xbox One's favor. This is a subjective take to be sure, but there's truth in recognizing the popularity and raw sales numbers from each of the franchises included; at the end of the day Smash and God of War are just bigger na
The multiplayer changes planned by Rare also including a matchmaking system that filters by microphone status and language, allowing players to prioritize matchmaking with other players who have the same microphone status as themselves, and who are speaking the same langu
Merrick offers this clue to look for the “fin-rock that stands in a lagoon” and it's very close by! Head to the center of Shark Bait Cove and look for the fin-shaped rock to find Merrick’s Journal XX which has two pages. The first hint is that two ships had to work together, using the drum instrument, to summon the giant megalodon shark. The second hint, “red haired and fair of face, her tavern stands at a shining place!” which refers to Tina at Golden Sands Outpost (E
A recent patch to Sea of Thieves already extended the game's ship respawn distance , preventing players from respawning their ship within sight of the ship that sunk them, but Rare states in the developer update that the studio has plans to improve that aspect of the game even further. Rare also wishes to address other problems with spawn-killing by adding in-game reminders to players of the “Scuttle” option, and possibly even moving ships to other world instances to avoid prolonged cases of spawn-kill
Head to Golden Sands Outpost and ask Tina about drunken pirates. She tells you about Merrick's sunken ship, The Killer Whale and reveals it's “north of that place… Idiot Island, or something. East of Double Trees.” This translate to north of Fool’s Lagoon (K-17) and east of Twin Groves (I
The other key issue addressed in Rare's developer update is cheating in Sea of Thieves . Despite only releasing a few weeks ago, the game reportedly already has a hacking problem, and Rare states that the studio considers dealing with this issue a top priority. The studio reiterated its banning policy, Https://Strategyreviewer.Com/ stating that any players caught cheating in the game would be banned straight a
Fortunately, Phil Spencer (Executive Vice President of Gaming at Microsoft) knows this all too well and is in the midst of turning things around. As Bloomberg reports, Spencer claims that the focus moving forward for Microsoft will be in software as it will begin to either create new studios or purchase them. He said: “We need to grow, and I look forward to doing that. Our ability to go create content has to be one of our strengths. We haven’t always invested at the same level. We’ve gone through ups and downs in the investment.” Furthermore, Spencer indicated on Major Nelson's podcast that there are going to be some “ positive changes ” at this year's E3, presumably meaning that they are truly starting to turn things around with regard to first-party cont
Another popular topic during the AMA dealt with character customization in Sea of Thieves . Reddit user ColoniaCroisant asked about the possibility of seeing different pirates from various other regions around the world. The response gave players hope to see this more in future content dr
Still, there's something that lacks within the library when compared to competitors' critical darlings like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Horizon: Zero Dawn . Indeed, it appears as if the competition has a stranglehold on triple-A exclusive games, and in that light, Xbox's titles are lacking when placed head-to-head against the barrage of titles coming from Nintendo and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Admittedly, games like Sea of Thieves and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have managed to garner significant player counts within their first few weeks of availability, and that's great news for the firm. But the long-term appeal of these games remains to be seen, and the initial quality is far removed from that of the immediate competitio
This update and how transparent and honest it is great. It's the right step, and an important one we hope Rare does very frequently. Being open and addressing feedback and constructive criticisms is one of the important keys to success for online games with passionate communities - and those devs who don't communicate or offer game updates quickly are the ones that turn advocates of the game into haters. We see it all the time among some of the other popular games online - especially the ones that streamers are actively play
We noted in our first impressions of Sea of Thieves that the server issues are a problem all too common in online games and one that after all these years shouldn't still happen, but it does. So please be prepared going in that there may be difficulties joining with others in a crew, and that it's possible to lose connection while playing, and with it, your loot that you've yet to redeem at an outpost. This can be infuriating but it's part of the growing pains and reality of this game at the mom